2011/11/03

Barely a Mention of Corzine's Affiliation in Long Le Monde Piece, Except That He "Claims" to Be a Democrat

A major article on Jon Corzine in Le Monde with nary a mention, by Sylvain Cypel and Marc Roche, that the head of MF Global was a Democrat and certainly none that he was a major donor to Barack Obama. The entire piece is meant to make one think that he is one of those traditional conservative fat cats whom the left (and Obama) has been heroically battling for so long and who turned out to be a political parvenu. A couple of lines of his mentor Robert Rubin working for Bill Clinton, not a single mention of Obama, and, following then — the clinger — the brief mention with wording that "Jon Corzine runs as a Democrat", i.e., that he "claims to be a Democrat"!

Update: Corzine's past ties to Obama is not mentioned in any of three Economist articles either…